Inkstand



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY D. FORBES, OF BOSTON, MASSAOHUSETTS.

INKSTAND.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 237,103, dated February1, 1881.

Application filed June 18, 1880. (No model.)

10 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY D. FORBES, of Boston, in the county of Suffolkand State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Inkstand, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a device to be used conjointly with anink-holder, for the purpose of securing cleanliness of the surroundingsand purity of the ink; and it consists in combining with the ink-vessela cheap flat disk, of any suitable material-blotting-paper, forinstancewhich shall serve as a collector of any ink that is accidentallydropped, the disk to be removed as often as it gets soiled.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of one modification of myinvention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same. Fig. 3 shows anink-well and disk attached. Fig. 4 is a plan of one of my disks.

A in the drawings represents the base or holder for the ink-receptacleproper. This may be of any desired shape and style, or it may bedispensed with and the ink-receptacle B be inserted into the desk ortable. Theinkholder B is provided with a flange, B, as shown. The flatdisk 0 is made of any suitable material, and has an opening, S, Fig. 4,in its center, through which the ink-receptacle B can pass.

When the parts-are put together, as shown in Fig. 1, the flange B of theink-receptacle B holds the blotter-disk 0 in place. To change the disk0, it is necessaryonly to take out the ink-receptacle B and slip it off,when a new one may be put in its place.

Having thus described my invention, what I desire to secure by LettersPatent is-- In an inkstand, the combination of the base A and disk 0with the ink-receptacle B and flange B, substantially as described, andfor the purpose set forth.

HENRY D. FORBES.

Witnesses:

HELEN M. FEEGAN, WILLIAM EDsoN.

